Triller's rambling lawyer letter to IBF makes wild accusations related to Lopez-Kambosos
Alleges conspiracy and extortion involving IBF, Top Rank, PBC and fighter camps, and claims to have lost nearly $15 million on canceled fight
Even before the IBF has ruled on whether Triller Fight Club is in default of its winning purse bid to promote the mandatory defense between unified lightweight world champion Teofimo Lopez and challenger George Kambosos Jr. -- as Kambosos’ team is seeking -- Triller told the IBF it has pulled the fight from its planned Oct. 16 card, even though Kambosos had not agreed to appear on that date in the first place.
Nonetheless, Thorsten Meier, the Triller Fight Club chief operating officer, wrote a letter to the IBF on Friday, a copy of which I obtained, in which he made certain demands of the sanctioning organization and notified it that Triller would no longer seek to have the fight on its upcoming Oct. 16 show at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The day before Meier sent his letter to IBF, attorney Farhad Novian, representing Triller, wrote a much more detailed and hard-line letter — one that in some places did not make much sense — to the IBF outlining Triller’s position I detail and laying the deadline for Kambosos to agree to fight on Oct. 16, which he did not do.
I obtained a copy of that letter also and it’s fascinating to read. I wrote about the situation and letters for World Boxing News. You can read that story here: https://www.worldboxingnews.net/2021/10/03/teofimo-lopez-george-kambosos-pulled/
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